by TurkeyPurge | May 11, 2019 | Today in Crackdown, Uncategorized
For the first time since being released from Turkish custody, German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücelspoke about the torture he experienced while being held in pretrial detention at a prison near Istanbul. Testifying before a Berlin district court on Friday, Yücel spoke...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The ruling AK Party submitted to Turkey’s top election body (YSK) a list of voters dismissed from their jobs as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown and asked for the cancellation of the poll in Istanbul where the candidate of the opposition party...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 15, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Ekrem İmamoğlu, who was elected mayor of İstanbul according to unofficial results in the March 31 local elections, has told media that managements of two Turkish football clubs, Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş, were “threatened” by a minister and were ordered not...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Zehra Doğan, an artist and journalist for the now-closed a Kurdish news agency (JİNHA), was released on Sunday after two years, nine months and 22 days in prison Doğan was convicted of disseminating “terrorist propaganda” in social media posts and news stories. Her...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 11, 2018 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Turkish television anchor Erkan Tan, known for his staunch pro-government stance on A Haber TV, on Tuesday called for the beheading of protesters who were involved in the countrywide anti-government Gezi protests in the summer of 2013. While arguing in a column for...
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